Discover a healthier lifestyle (Discovery Channel)

Member Name: wad123

Product:	Discovery Channel
Date:	06/11/02 (316 review reads)
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I recently found this channel on Sky digital and I have practically been hooked onto the channel. It?s an excellent channel for learning information about health. With a diverse range of programmes from watching your weight, fitness, health bulletins, having a baby, make over stories to chat shows.

You can find this channel on Sky digital 196. It?s suitable for probably over 18 with the content directed at health conscious people. You can learn some really excellent tips and pick up valuable advice to lead a healthy lifestyle by watching this channel.

For example, Celebrity Slimming is a really good programme. It comes on at 1pm and 6.30pm, the 6.30pm is a repeat of the morning show. It follows normal people who are chosen to follow a celebrity diet. Like for example the Geri Halliwell low carbohydrate diet. They are given all the resources to follow the plans, with top trainers and all the top help and advice that they need. The programme follows their success or failures within he eight weeks. It?s a really good programme and from which you can pick up some top tips.

Continuing the diet theme, they have a programme called Dietbusters. This programme is about success stories of people who have lost a lot of weight. Again, you are given a detailed account of the programme they followed. This is a very valuable programme especially if you are overweight and need encouragement to lose the weight. It shows it can be done. The people featured on the show are normal people, they either follow a plan from Weight Watchers or a similar plan adapted to suit their needs.

Other favourite programmes of mine are called ?Makeover Story? where they transform two friends and give them a makeover to the surprise of their friends. The show is predictable in that the two people are totally transformed. But what this programme shows is how simple it is. And how more fashionable clothes, a hair cut and style can revitalise a person. Nine
out of ten times the people are totally transformed.
Again, if you are looking for some tips on make-up or hairstyles then this programme can help.

I also like the health bulletins they have. These usually last five minutes and are extremely informative. Today?s for example was on flu?s and colds and how to prevent them. The advice is good but unfortunately to many times it goes in one ear and out of the other.

If you are having a baby then there?s quite a few ?Having a Baby? programmes. There?s wedding programmes and advice for those of you wanting to get married and need tips and advice on how to look your best come the big days.

One of the really good things about this channel is that most of the programmes follow real people and therefore the tips and advice you get are easy to understand. They don?t involve spending a lot of money are changing your lifestyle too much. Another good thing is the way the programmes are presented for example they follow couples from early pregnancy to the actual birth day and afterwards to make a really good documentary style programme.
Most of the programmes last for 30 minutes.

I like this TV channel if your health conscious then you will find this TV channel valuable for picking up even more tips and advice. They don?t have that many breaks, probable once every 15 minutes. Most of the programmes are new however they do show some repeats. The good thing is that if you miss a programme because you are busy you can watch it again in the evenings because they do show episodes of a programme twice a day-once in the morning and once in the evenings.

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